Background Documents
- Climate Change 101: an overview
- Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the QDR (2010)
- A U.S.-centric Chronology of the International Climate Change Negotiations (2010)
- The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation (2009)
- Issue Statement on Climate Change (2009)
- Global Climate Change: Three Policy Perspectives (2008)
- The Security Implications of Climate Change (2007)
- National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (2007)
- The Security Implications of Climate Change for the UN System (2004)
U.S. & Global Climate Change
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Definition
What Is Climate Change?
Climate change refers to any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer). Climate change might result from natural factors and processes or from human activities.
The term “climate change” is often used interchangeably with the term global warming. Global warming refers to an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. However, rising temperatures are just one aspect of climate change.
“Climate Change Indicators in the United States.” Washington, DC: EPA, April 2010. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators.html
International Agreements
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Receding Ice
Those that signed the Kyoto Protocol (Green)
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